Visitng with the Patriots who helped form our country ...

Last night was our living wax musuem, the grand finale of American Revolution War Coop. For the last four months the children have gathered together every Friday at 10 am to learn about the "road" to the constitution. They listened to lectures, stories, acted out plays, created dioramas, did art projects, worked on timelines, created lapbooks and went on MANY field trips. The class was only supposed to last three hours but at 1 pm, almost weekly, the kids begged for more ! We often went an extra hour or two !

For the living wax museum, all children had to write a "speech" and perform it on stage. The speech was about their life and what made them important. All children ranging in age from 5 - 11 got up on stage to "perform" and were magnificent ! The children also had to create a "story board" of their person's life. There were really no rules on what to do for the story board ! They had complete creativity. Finally, each child had to create a "3 x 5 baseball style" trading card of their patriot to exchange with the other children.

For the "living wax musuem", Shayna was Nathan Hale. She did an awesome job ! Nathan did an enormous amount of "living" in his short 21 years of life. He was the first American to be caught and hung during the Revolution.

The kids did an awesome job !

For the living wax musuem, Shayna was Nathan Hale.